I'll take the under. I only stopped in on this thread because I saw the 'pipe dropped in here.

Coming from a Wolverine, we're the football equivalent of a formerly abused wife of a meth addict who just remarried the safe nice guy. We're just glad we have someone who's aware that it's a rivalry and that tackling on defense is integral. Baby steps.

Love child of shawn kemp wrote:Did a quick google search that said the U of A soccer coach's base salary is $170,000/year. I think he is a demi-god. I think he is living the high life right whwere he is at.

That's ten times more than Kent grads make. "Dya want fries with that?"

Christ. A freakin soccer coach makes that kind of jack? No wonder our society is so jacked up.

Hey, you idiots, don't forget no touchy bally with your hands.Hey, you idiots, once an hour kick that round thing towards that net thing.Hey, you idiot, goalies ARE allowed to use their hands.Hey, you idiots, it is time for practice. Run up and down the field until I blow the whistle.Hey, you idiots, we are never going to score...on the field or at the next sorority party.

Think his job will be on Monster if he takes off for Seattle? I think I could put together a pretty kick ass soccer coach resume!

Love child of shawn kemp wrote:Did a quick google search that said the U of A soccer coach's base salary is $170,000/year. I think he is a demi-god. I think he is living the high life right whwere he is at.

That's ten times more than Kent grads make. "Dya want fries with that?"

Congrads on the U instituting minimum admission standards for the first time in school history. Gotta have an ACT Composite all the way up to 17 to gain entrance into the Harvard of the west. Have to study, sweat and achieve in the top 28th percentile to get that prestigious offer of a ticket to the top.

Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.

But I'll bet you 6 ways from Sunday that Akron loses in football, dadgummit.

You're on. It'll be easier to drive home with pizza sauce on my shirt than trying to hold down a cheap Kent beer anyway. Let's do the Canal Park ballgame too (it's for a good cause). I doubt Akron can win against Kent, not this year. In 2-4 years, my pizza money is on Bowdenball.

When Kent's baseball team draws 4700 and plays regular season games on national TV (and loses the HC to the majors), you can talk smack about soccer. Hell when your football team is on national TV as often as our soccer team, you can talk.

But I'll bet you 6 ways from Sunday that Akron loses in football, dadgummit.

You're on. It'll be easier to drive home with pizza sauce on my shirt than trying to hold down a cheap Kent beer anyway. Let's do the Canal Park ballgame too (it's for a good cause). I doubt Akron can win against Kent, not this year. In 2-4 years, my pizza money is on Bowdenball.

When Kent's baseball team draws 4700 and plays regular season games on national TV (and loses the HC to the majors), you can talk smack about soccer. Hell when your football team is on national TV as often as our soccer team, you can talk.

When you realize what a fool you are making of yourself pimping NCAA futbol as if anyone gives a crap, you can stop talking.

jb wrote:When you realize what a fool you are making of yourself pimping NCAA futbol as if anyone gives a crap, you can stop talking.

Someone else started the thread, like most of the legit threads in The Back of the Net.

I'm not pimping college soccer or claiming its in the same galaxy as college football and basketball. There are people who watch it (according to ESPN and Fox) and talk about it, no different than golf, fighting, high school sports, or hockey.

I'm not pimping the sport. I'm trash talking Can't State. Can Kent's "America's Pasttime" program outdraw Akron's soccer? Do they even charge admission???

Seriously, 4500 paying fans in any MAC sport is a lot of fuckin' people...

I really have grown to love soccer at the highest levels as well as the youth soccer that my youngest is involved in. That said, I can't get into college soccer and barely have a taste for MLS. I have to either have a vested stake in the game like with daughter, or watch it at the very highest level in order to enjoy it.

And if the kids playing college soccer were at the highest level they wouldn't be playing college soccer. They'd be in some premier pipeline or academy.

I respect the hell out of the kids that get to the level of Akron, etc. I hope that the game continues to grow and kids benefit from the scholarship money at the collegiate level.

Just doing a little digging, Hopkins average attendance is around 7,500 and their record attendance is 2x that of Akron "THE GREATEST SPORTS PROGRAM EVER!@$!~!!'s" soccer.

Really something to crow about, the fact that you can't even draw over 5,000 for a national championship team at a D-1 university in a city with absolutely nothing to do except watch the steel rust and economy collapse.

peeker643 wrote:I really have grown to love soccer at the highest levels as well as the youth soccer that my youngest is involved in. That said, I can't get into college soccer and barely have a taste for MLS. I have to either have a vested stake in the game like with daughter, or watch it at the very highest level in order to enjoy it.

That's how I feel about all sports. Can't sit and watch the Mariners play the Rays, or the Jaguars play the Raiders. A lot of AK fans have a vested stake (thousands of dollars LOL) in the program.

And if the kids playing college soccer were at the highest level they wouldn't be playing college soccer. They'd be in some premier pipeline or academy.

Academies are for U18, most players come out of the academies and play semi-pro and college (different seasons) until they're ready. Others come out of HS and enter college and SP.

That's the issue though. If they're coming out of the academies and going to play college or semi-pro then I'm not interested in watching them play. If they come out of the academies and play La Liga or with an EPL team or in Serie A, etc, then I watch.

I'll get up Saturday and watch the EPL games on ESPN/Fox Soccer. I will not watch the Fox Soccer college game of the week.

I did watch LA vs. Dallas and NY vs. Sporting KC Sunday night. Mostly because the Indians have turned me off of baseball forever.

College is still the way the vast majority of players make the MLS, whether they are "owned" by an MLS team or come out of HS. Like the NBA or MLB (and NHL?), their stay in college depends on how long it takes them to develop.

Spin wrote:College is still the way the vast majority of players make the MLS, whether they are "owned" by an MLS team or come out of HS. Like the NBA or MLB (and NHL?), their stay in college depends on how long it takes them to develop.

Again, you're talking 'graduation' to MLS, an inferior (IMO) product. It's a league for 'Not Quite Good Enoughs' and "Has Beens". That's not completely a criticism. There are teams, players and games worth watching. But it's a 'minor league' for all intents and purposes and you can tell that's true because any player in the MLS would kill to play in the EPL or a premier Italian/Spanish league. It's what they aspire to.

But I also don't watch a ton of college baseball (College WS aside) because I don't care to watch the kid from Rice play against the kid from College of Charleston so they can get drafted and play in Midland or Mahoning Valley either.

But I'd rather watch US quality soccer live than EPL on TV. If I had a rooting interest in one of the teams, it would be different. Once n awhile Italia is on the tube, I've yet to see my favorite Euro team Bari. On day I will, live.